This application is used to establish your eligibility for the New York State Get on Your Feet Loan Forgiveness Program. Graduates who are now in loan repayment are currently eligible to apply. Your application will be processed upon receipt of all required documents, and you will be notified of your eligibility to receive award payments under this Program. To expedite processing, we encourage you to submit all of your documentation electronically.
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Protecting the privacy of your personal information is important to the New York State Higher Education Services Corporation (HESC). We respect your right to privacy and recognize our obligation to keep information about you secure and confidential in compliance with state and federal laws, and maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in compliance with federal and state laws and regulations to safeguard your personal information. This notice uses the term "personal information". This means any information concerning you, which because of name, number, symbol, mark or other identifier, can be used to identify you. HESC collects this information pursuant to Articles 13 and 14 of the New York State Education Law and applicable regulations in connection with the administration of Program awards. Failure to provide the requested information will disqualify the applicant from receiving the award. HESC does not disclose any personal information about you to anyone, except as permitted by law. HESC restricts access to your personal information to those individuals and entities that need to know this information in order to administer, service and/or collect Program awards including, but not limited to, HESC employees, other state employees and employees of the New York State Attorney General's office, and contractors and agents. Your personal information is retained in the system of records maintained by HESC's Grant and Scholarships Director, Office of Grant and Scholarship Programs, located at 99 Washington Avenue, Albany, New York 12255. If you have questions, you may schedule an appointment to speak with HESC at https://reservation.hesc.ny.gov/scholarships. You may access and review such information by filing a Personal Privacy Protection Law (PPPL) request with HESC's PPPL Compliance Officer at www.hesc.ny.gov/pppl-request. HESC shall, within 5 business days of the date of the receipt of a proper request to access and review your personal information: (i) provide access to the personal information; (ii) deny access in writing, explaining the reasons therefore; or (iii) acknowledge the receipt of the request in writing, stating the approximate date when the request will be granted or denied, which date shall not be more than 30 days from the date of the acknowledgment.
More details for the HESC Privacy Policy can be found here.